HUNTERVILLE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 3

HUNTERVILLE

ST. JAMES’ THEATRE. Jaiid in a realm where fierce feuds are as common as mammy songs. “ Kentucky Kernels” brings Bert W’heeier and Robert Woolsey to St. James’ Theatre on Saturday in their newest remedy hit. The popular pair are seen as two vaudeville magicians who become involved in a family feud when ♦heir ward inherits a vast Southern estate. Thus Wheeler and Woolsey inadvertently step into a busy fend with an opposing clan. When Wheeler falls in love with the daughter of the h<»s tile leader of the enemy, Woolsey :it tempts to reconcile the foe. Then hilarious events are said to pyramid into a side-splittinti climax. Mary Car lisle, one of the up-and-coming younger stars, appears with the comedy team as tbe pretty daughter of the enemy clan, portrayed by Noah Beery, Dr. Tillyard dealt in detail with the life of the Cambrian Seas. There was no life on the land until Silurian times, but in early Cambria times the seas contained immense beds of gigantic algae or seaweeds, which grew- like beds of great, cabbages on the sea-floor. On these algae an immense variety of primitive invertebrate life browsed, and there were also millions of unicel lura plants and animals which formed the food of other more complex types. Taken in order of complexity, the animal life was comprised, as far as we know, in the groups Foraminifera. radiolaria. sponges, cupcorals, jellyfish, bracuiopodps. lampshells, molluscs, marine worms, Crustacea, and trilobites. Dr. Tillyard paid tribute to the work of the late Professor Sir T. W. E. David, F.R.S., of Sydney, who faced intense opposition and disbelief for 40 years in trying to prove that highlyorganised forms of life existed in the proterozoic age. In the lecturer s opinion, he has succeeded, though the disbelief of his colleagues nearly broke his heart. Dr. Tillyard gave an account of the discovery by David and himself of a new class of arthropids m the proterozoic rocks of South Australia, the joint work on which will shortly be published in Sydney. A feature of the lecture was distribution in leaflet form to the audience of two printed tables, one shewing the evolution of mankind and the other the succession of geological periods.